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    Art Brokerage: Winston Churchill British Artist: b. 1874-1965. Born on November 30, 1874 in Woodstock, United Kingdom, he joined the British Army as a young man and saw action while acting as war correspondent in British India, the Anglo-Sudan War, and the Second Boer War. Widely known as the greatest statesman of the 20th century and one of the most admired Britons ever, a Nobel Prize winner and historian who, at his death, had sold more history books than any other historian, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was also an avid and accomplished painter. Winston Churchill was age 40 when he began to paint — at one of the lowest moments of his life. It was June 1915, shortly after his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty in the wake of the Dardanelles campaign. One Sunday afternoon, his sister-in-law Lady Gwendeline handed him a paintbrush belonging to his young nephew. In his 1921 essay "Painting as a Pastime" Churchill recalled, "And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue." Painting provided a refuge from the stresses of politics and publishing, and from what Churchill called "the black dog" of depression. He was inspired by the Impressionists and enjoyed painting en plein air (i.e. outdoors). At home and in his travels, Churchill was accompanied by his paints, brushes, canvases, and an easel. His medium of choice was oil, and his preferred subjects were landscapes and seascapes. His approximately 550 canvases — or his "daubs" as he called them — tell the story of his travels across Europe, North America, and North Africa with scenes of the south of France as his most frequent subject. Although largely self-taught, his style and technique evolved through mentoring from accomplished painters such as Sir Oswald Birley, Sir John and Hazel Lavery, Paul Maze, Sir William Nicholson, and Walter Sickert. He copied paintings by Charles Daubigny, John Singer Sargent, and Paul Cézanne, some loaned to him by his political colleague, Philip Sassoon. Listings wanted.

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